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HANDYMAN ON CALL

Can this marble statue be cleaned?

By Peter Hotton

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 15, 2012

I have a problem. My mother owns a very nice house in Miami which has a life-sized Italian white marble statue of a woman and Cupid which sits in the middle of a small fish pond, also made of marble, and dates from 1900. Here’s the problem. Parts of the arms and the face of the woman are discolored, and dirty with black and yellow. What should I do?

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